The book discusses the political dramas of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard regarding their employment of the two critical terms used in its title. It provides a new look at the output of the artists in reference to the employment of the grotesque, justifying their classification together with the East European absurdist playwrights.
Jadwiga Uchman is professor emeritus at the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź. She specialized mainly in modern drama, not only in the theatre of the absurd and poetic drama but also film and theatre adaptations of plays. She published over 60 articles and three books.